Author: Frank J. WarnkePublisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A critical study of the English poet's lyric poetry, his prose "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," and "Sermons."
John Donne (EAS)
Author: Frank J. WarnkePublisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A critical study of the English poet's lyric poetry, his prose "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," and "Sermons."
The Love Poems of John Donne
Author: Charles Eliot NortonPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875637366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
John Donne
Author: John StubbsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393062601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A portrait of the life and work of the English poet places his achievements against a backdrop of a rapidly transforming world and offers insight into how his writings reflect such subjects as his crises of desire and devotion, and the outbreak of plague.
Wit
Author: Margaret EdsonPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466871830
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity." In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson's writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.
John Donne (EAS)
Author: Frank J. WarnkePublisher: Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A critical study of the English poet's lyric poetry, his prose "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions," and "Sermons."
Ikkyū Sōjun
Author: 一休The Life of John Donne ...
Author: Izaak WaltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Poetical Works. With a Life of the Author
Author: John MiltonSacred Calligraphy of the East
Author: John StevensPublisher:
ISBN: 9781626549944
Category : Art and religion
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Throughout the East, writing is held to be a gift from the gods, and the divinely inspired letters and characters are objects of the highest veneration. The religious significance of calligraphy has thus led to a unique development of the art of brush and ink in Japan, China, India, and Tibet. This beautifully illustrated book covers such topics as the history and spirit of Eastern calligraphy, the art of copying religious texts, the biographies of important Zen calligraphers, and practical instructions on materials and techniques for the contemporary student. No knowledge of the languages discussed is required for the reader to appreciate the study of this ancient practice. John Stevens lived in Japan for thirty-five years, where he was a professor of Buddhist studies at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai. Stevens is a widely respected translator, an ordained Buddhist priest, a curator of several major exhibitions of Zen art, and an aikido instructor. He has authored over thirty books and is one of the foremost Western experts on Aikido, holding a ranking of 7th dan Aikikai. Stevens has also studied calligraphy for decades, authoring this classic Sacred Calligraphy of the East. Other John Stevens titles that are likely to be of interest include The Philosophy of Aikido, Extraordinary Zen Masters, and The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei. Readers interested in related titles from John Stevens will also want to see: Abundant Peace (ISBN: 9781626543232), Aikido: The Way of Harmony (ISBN: 9781626543270), Secrets of Aikido (ISBN: 9781626543256), The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei (ISBN: 9781626549951), The Philosophy of Aikido (ISBN: 9781626549937), Extraordinary Zen Masters (ISBN: 9781626549920).
The Sermons of John Donne, Volume X
Author: John DonnePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520346319
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.